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A Canary in the AI Coal Mine: American Jews May Be Disproportionately Harmed by Intellectual Property Dispossession in Large Language Model Training
Heila Precel, Allison McDonald, Brent Hecht +1
Systemic property dispossession from minority groups has often been carried out in the name of technological progress. In this paper, we identify evidence that the current paradigm…
The Dimensions of Data Labor: A Road Map for Researchers, Activists, and Policymakers to Empower Data Producers
Hanlin Li, Nicholas Vincent, Stevie Chancellor +1
Many recent technological advances (e.g. ChatGPT and search engines) are possible only because of massive amounts of user-generated data produced through user interactions with com…
Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs
Jing Ma, Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang +3
Hypergraphs provide an effective abstraction for modeling multi-way group interactions among nodes, where each hyperedge can connect any number of nodes. Different from most existi…
All That's Happening behind the Scenes: Putting the Spotlight on Volunteer Moderator Labor in Reddit
Hanlin Li, Brent Hecht, Stevie Chancellor
Online volunteers are an uncompensated yet valuable labor force for many social platforms. For example, volunteer content moderators perform a vast amount of labor to maintain onli…
Measuring the Monetary Value of Online Volunteer Work
Hanlin Li, Brent Hecht, Stevie Chancellor
Online volunteers are a crucial labor force that keeps many for-profit systems afloat (e.g. social media platforms and online review sites). Despite their substantial role in uphol…
It's Time to Do Something: Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Computing Through a Change to the Peer Review Process
Brent Hecht, Lauren Wilcox, Jeffrey P. Bigham +9
The computing research community needs to work much harder to address the downsides of our innovations. Between the erosion of privacy, threats to democracy, and automation's effec…
Large Scale Analysis of Multitasking Behavior During Remote Meetings
Hancheng Cao, Chia-Jung Lee, Shamsi Iqbal +6
Virtual meetings are critical for remote work because of the need for synchronous collaboration in the absence of in-person interactions. In-meeting multitasking is closely linked…
Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its Relationship with Technology Companies
Nicholas Vincent, Hanlin Li, Nicole Tilly +2
Many powerful computing technologies rely on implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. This dependency suggests a potential source of leverage for the public in its…
Behavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AI
Danish Contractor, Daniel McDuff, Julia Haines +5
With the growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) for many different applications, the sharing of code, data, and models is important to ensure the replicability and democr…
How Work From Home Affects Collaboration: A Large-Scale Study of Information Workers in a Natural Experiment During COVID-19
Longqi Yang, Sonia Jaffe, David Holtz +9
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide-ranging impact on information workers such as higher stress levels, increased workloads, new workstreams, and more caregiving responsibilities…
Towards Better Driver Safety: Empowering Personal Navigation Technologies with Road Safety Awareness
Runsheng Xu, Shibo Zhang, Yue Zhao +4
Recent research has found that navigation systems usually assume that all roads are equally safe, directing drivers to dangerous routes, which led to catastrophic consequences. To…
A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to the Success of Search Engines
Nicholas Vincent, Brent Hecht
A growing body of work has highlighted the important role that Wikipedia's volunteer-created content plays in helping search engines achieve their core goal of addressing the infor…
Mapping the Potential and Pitfalls of "Data Dividends" as a Means of Sharing the Profits of Artificial Intelligence
Nicholas Vincent, Yichun Li, Renee Zha +1
Identifying strategies to more broadly distribute the economic winnings of AI technologies is a growing priority in HCI and other fields. One idea gaining prominence centers on "da…
Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide
Isaac Johnson, Allen Yilun Lin, Toby Jia-Jun Li +4
Wikipedia articles about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and intelligent te…
Measuring the Importance of User-Generated Content to Search Engines
Nicholas Vincent, Isaac Johnson, Patrick Sheehan +1
Search engines are some of the most popular and profitable intelligent technologies in existence. Recent research, however, has suggested that search engines may be surprisingly de…
Pharos: improving navigation instructions on smartwatches by including global landmarks
N. Wenig, D. Wenig, S. Ernst +3
Landmark-based navigation systems have proven benefits relative to traditional turn-by-turn systems that use street names and distances. However, one obstacle to the implementation…
The Tower of Babel Meets Web 2.0: User-Generated Content and its Applications in a Multilingual Context
B. Hecht, D. Gergle
This study explores language's fragmenting effect on user-generated content by examining the diversity of knowledge representations across 25 different Wikipedia language editions.…
Out of Site: Empowering a New Approach to Online Boycotts
H. Li, B. Alarcon, S. M. Espinosa +2
GrabYourWallet, #boycottNRA and other online boycott campaigns have attracted substantial public interest in recent months. However, a number of significant challenges are preventi…
SubwayPS: Towards Enabling Smartphone Positioning in Underground Public Transportation Systems
T. Stockx, B. Hecht, J. Schöning
Thanks to rapid advances in technologies like GPS and Wi-Fi positioning, smartphone users are able to determine their location almost everywhere they go. This is not true, however,…
Helping Computers Understand Geographically-Bound Activity Restrictions
M. Soll, P. Naumann, J. Schöning +2
The lack of certain types of geographic data prevents the development of location-aware technologies in a number of important domains. One such type of "unmapped" geographic data i…
Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask "Why?"
J. Schöning, B. Hecht, M. Raubal +3
Virtual globes have progressed from little-known technology to broadly popular software in a mere few years. We investigated this phenomenon through a survey and discovered that, w…
The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement
Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin +10
The widespread popularity of Pokémon GO presents the first opportunity to observe the geographic effects of location-based gaming at scale. This paper reports the results of a mixe…